Quotes About Productivity

but it finally occurred to me that the time was going to pass anyway, I might as well try to have something to show for it

most of us no longer have the luxury of asking whether a job is genuinely productive, but only whether it pays well and has tolerable conditions.

The big deal is that if employees aren't engaged, your company will suffer.

A capitalist society requires a culture based on images. It needs to furnish vast amounts of entertainment in order to stimulate buying and anesthetize the injuries of class, race, and sex. And it needs to gather unlimited amounts of information, the better to exploit natural resources, increase productivity, keep order, make war, give jobs to bureaucrats.

Real intelligence is a creative use of knowledge, not merely an accumulation of facts. The slow thinker who can finally come up with an idea of his own is more important to the world than a walking encyclopedia who hasn't learned how to use this information productively.

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

One thing I've noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.

We had visceral, rich memories of dull, interminable hours. Then a day would pass in perfect harmony with our projects, our family members, and our coworkers, and we couldn't believe we were getting paid for this.

out. I was sure not only that everything worth doing had already been done while I was asleep but also that, now that I was awake, there was no longer anything worth doing.

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

El suelo pobre produce al hombre rico, porque la pobreza del suelo estimula el trabajo del hombre al que más tarde debe este su riqueza.

Commit yourself to doing what is possible. Make a list of what you have to do tomorrow; eliminate activities that are unnecessary, and reschedule those that can and should be postponed

E-mail is an "opener," not a closer. Open it up first thing in the morning and you're off on a dozen different tasks. Instead, close something from the day before. Finish something first before you open something new.

A committee takes hours to put into minutes what can be done in seconds.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

It has been conservatively estimated that Victoria wrote an average of two and a half thousand words per day during her reign, a total of approximately sixty million words.

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

It was amazing how slowly one could work when one really put one's mind to it.

A working woman will never have the time to indulge in time-wasting activities such as gossiping.

I will call out the lazy, the idle, and the ignorant. I will support the hard working, the industrious, and the law.